8 Months Old!

It amazes me how much a baby can learn and do in only a months time. Nate seems to be learning something new everyday. He is growing so fast and wants to be such a big, independent boy. He gets so irritated when he can't do something that his big brothers are doing. Don't rush it Nate; you will catch up to them before you know it. At 8 months old, Nate:
*pulls up on anything and will try to let go to stand by himself for a few seconds.
*walks behind his little toy walker he got for Christmas.
*has completely given up on eating baby food. It is table food or nothing for this little guy.
*has pretty much weened himself from nursing.
*has started bouncing up and down when he hears music being played.
*loves to go into the bathroom and unroll the entire roll of toilet paper. He can do it in record time too.

Soccer Season 2010!

Kade played soccer for the second time this year. Dane and Cody Stelter coached their little team again. They kept their same team name as last year, "Rampage." The boys had an awesome season; they only lost one game out of eleven. Kade scored his share of goals this season. You could tell he was one of the oldest ones this year. Soccer seems to be a sport he really enjoys. Great job this season Kade. We are so proud of you! Until next season...

Thanksgiving Weekend!

Thanksgiving was pretty laid back for us this year. Thanksgiving Day for lunch, we had Popo Loewe, Uncle Joe, Aunt Lolo, and cousin Coy over. We cooked the usual Thanksgiving meal: turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, rolls, etc. That evening we went over to Nana and Papa Rau's house along with Hardy's to enjoy another round of some home cooking. That night we all watched "the big game" against the Aggies and Longhorns together. Friday morning we and the Hardy family loaded up for a weekend trip to Fredericksburg to visit Wallace and Delores on the Longbranch Ranch. We did a little hunting, and ended up getting a pretty nice 8 pointer. The kids loved it. They played hard all weekend. We did everything from a scavenger hunt to a jeep ride looking for deer. Thank you Wallace and Delores for another great trip to the ranch.

Mommy's big 8 pointer

Brady and Mommy


Kade and Mommy


Hanging out at the camp house


Daddy and Brady


On our scavenger hunt


Taking a break for a picture


Getting ready to go on a jeep ride


We're loaded down


Feeding the catfish


Brady loved playing with all of the deer horns


Nate enjoying the jeep ride


Nate catching a little snooze while we rode around

7 Months Old!

Nate was 7 months old back in November. I feel like I blink and he is doing something new. He is getting so big and trying so hard to keep up with those two big brothers. At seven months old now he is:
*pulling up on everything and standing while holding onto something.
*finally getting some teeth. We have two bottom teeth.
*loving bath time. He moved out of the tub that you sit in and gets to sit and splash in the big tub all by himself.
*still not a good night sleeper. We really hope that is going to get better.
*not liking baby food very much anymore. I have had a hard time finding something he will eat. He doesn't want baby food, yet he thinks he's choking to death on mashed potatoes. Who knows?
*still an avid thumb sucker. He is going to be the hardest one to break of this habit.
*completely attached to his blanket. We can't leave home without it.

Halloween 2010!

This year for Halloween we went back and forth about what the boys would dress up as. We knew that Nate was just going to be Nate wearing his "My First Halloween" onesie, but couldn't decide what to dress Kade and Brady up as. Neither one would really tell us what he wanted to be. Brady still loves bull riding, and Kade will, for the most part, go along with anything. I decided to dress Brady up as a bull rider and make Kade the rodeo clown, or bull fighter. I think their costumes turned out pretty well. We ended meeting cousins Jenna, Leah, and Luke over at some friend's house in Scenic Estates to do a little trick or treating. The kids all had a blast and got way too much candy. As you can tell from the pictures below, we had a sad bull rider on our hands for awhile. He got woken up from his nap, and well we woke him up on the wrong side of the bed; nothing a little candy didn't cure eventually.

Pumpkin Carving!

Remember those pumpkins I said the boys picked out in the pumpkin patch at Dew Berry farms? Well, they went from pumpkins to Jack-O-Lanterns a week later. We sat out on the porch one evening and got our pumpkins ready for Halloween. The boys favorite part was digging all of the seeds out of the pumpkins. I think they turned our pretty well.

Camping Out!

Dane and Kade have been saying forever that they were going to "camp out" down at our tank one night and fish for catfish. Well, back in October they decided to stop talking about it and actually do it. They invited Cody Stelter and his son Ian over for some camping fun. They set up the tent, built a fire, and threw out their fishing poles. I went down there when it got dark to enjoy some homemade smores with them that we made over the fire they had built. They were delicious. I went back up to the house and left them to continue their camp out. I guess it was about 8:30 that night that the boys made their way back up to the house. The next thing I know, they are taking a bath and putting on their pj's. I suppose our king size bed looked a little more enticing to sleep in that a tent, because that is where they ended up watching some "Tom and Jerry." At around 10:00pm and few catfish later, the camp out came to an end, but those boys thought that was the best camp out ever.